Classics in the Moorland – An evening with Strauss
20.00
Egill Árni Pálsson, tenor
Kristinn Örn Kristinsson, pianist
On the program are two song cycles by Richard Strauss, Op. 10 and Op. 19. His cycles are generally not in narrative form and they are rarely performed as a whole, but many have interesting stories behind them which give insight into the composer´s life and work. These two cycles contain some of the composer´s most celebrated songs.
Egill Árni Pálsson studied at the Singing School in Reykjavik and attended private lessons in New York. After graduation, he moved to Berlin to study and work. He won prizes in the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg and Oper Schloss Laubach competitions, performed at the Classic Open Air Festival in Berlin and in Das Lied von Der Erde in Frankfurt (Oder) and Potsdam with the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt. He also sang a leading role in Das Liebesverbot by Richard Wagner and performed in the opera house in Braunschweig, as part of the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg. Egill performs regularly in opera projects, church concerts and Lied recitals in Iceland and abroad. He teaches at the Singing School in Reykjavik and in 2016 he released the album “Pipeline” a collection of Icelandic songs.
Kristinn Örn studied at the Akureyri Music School and Reykjavik Music School, Southern Illinois University and St. Louis Conservatory of Music in the United States. After graduation, he taught at the Akureyri Music School for eight years, and became director of the Icelandic Suzuki Music School in Reykjavik in 1990. In 1998 Kristinn Örn co-founded the Allegro Suzuki Music School in Reykjavík. He is an accompanist at the Singing School in Reykjavik, performs widely in concerts with various instrumentalists and singers, and has made numerous recordings both on cd and for radio.
Tickets are kr. 3.000, kr. 2.000 for seniors, for students and guests under the age of twenty. Tickets available on tix.is and at the entrance. The concert series Klassík í Vatnsmýrinni (Classics in the moorlands) is organised in collaboration between the Icelandic Soloist Society and the Nordic House, and places great emphasis on Scandinavian and international cooperation.
About the concert series
The concert series Klassík í Vatnsmýrinni is organized in collaboration between the Icelandic Soloist Society and the Nordic House. The aim of the series is to give the audience a chance to hear performances by the very best among Icelandic classical musicians, as well as guests from abroad, in solo concerts, recitals and chamber music.
